Belt-strap.



No. 732,064. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903. J. M. GITTERMAN.

BELT STRAP.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented June 30, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

BELT-STRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,064, dated June 30, 1903. Application filed February 5, 1903. Serial No. 141,986. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN MILTON GITTER- MAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Belt-Straps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to belt-supporting devices, and has for its object to provide as a new article of manufacture a detachable support for apparel-belts, comprising a body of flexible material and having a buttonhole to receive a button on the waistband of the garment, whereby the support is secured to the garment, said material being slitted beyond said buttonhole for the passage of the belt.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective view of a preferred form of my belt-supporting device. Fig. 2 is a view of the waistband of a pair of trousers with my belt supporting device attached thereto, showing the manner of applying the said device to the garment and the mode of engaging the device with a belt.

Referring particularly to Fig. l of the drawings, A indicates the body or baseof my supporting device, consisting of flexible materialsuch as leather, textile fabric, and the like-cut or shaped to any desired configuration, but preferably formed of a single rectangular piece of material, having sufficient flexibility to permit it to bend or give in any direction. The body A is pierced or slitted, as at G, to provide a buttonhole, by means of which the support may be attached to a button on the waistband of a garment. The body A is further pierced or slitted beyond the buttonhole G to permit the belt to pass through the slitted portion and overlie the button and the buttonhole. In the form illustrated in the drawings the body is provided with two longitudinal slits or cuts 8 e and f f, one lying on each side of the buttonhole G, whereby the body is divided into a central section 0 and two outlying sections or strips B and D, held together as an integral structure by the material along the upper and lower ends or edges of the body. It is not necessary that any of the material of the body A be cut away or removed to form the slits e e and ff, as the said slits may be and preferably are formed as simple incisions. The article thus produced comprises myinvention in its simplest form; but of course it may be changed as to shape, configuration, material, finish, and ornamentation as necessity orindividual taste may dictate.

The application of the device to support a body-belt to retaina pair of trousers in proper position willsufficientlyillustrate the manner of using my invention. Two ormore, usually six, of the supporting devices are employed to hold the belt in place, and each of said devices is attached to one of the buttons usually provided on the waistband to receive the Suspender-loops, and such attachment is made by slipping the button through the buttonhole-slit in the support and drawing the support firmly behind the button with the slits occupying a vertical position, as indicated in Fig. 2. The belt is then engaged with each of said supports by passing the end thereof through the outlying slits, so that the belt lies under the sections B and D and over the intermediate section G, thereby completely covering and concealing the button. As the belt is drawn taut about the body the support is forced closely against the trousers, presenting no unsightly projections on the garment. Owing to the flexibility of the body A of the support, the greatest freedom of movement is permitted without inconvenience to the wearer and without imposing undue strains on the button attachments. The absence of rigid connecting means on the support and the provision of a simple flexiblesided buttonhole avoids the necessity of mutilating or in any manner perforating the material of the garment and also greatly facilitates the application of the supports, as they may be quickly attached to the garment, even while the latter is being worn.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a belt supporting device, consisting of a piece of slittedbeyondsaid buttonhole for the passage flexible material having a buttonhole, saidof the belt. :0 material being slitted beyond said button- In testimony whereof I affix my signature hole for the passage of the belt. in presence of two witnesses.

2. The combination with a belt of a series JOHN MILTON GITTERMAN. of supporting devices mounted thereon, each Witnesses: of said devices consisting of a flexible base CHAS. J. ONEILL,

having a buttonhole therein, said base being EDWIN S.' CLARKSON. 

